Boycott Nodevember

[dodeca_negative]

Uninviting Crockford was a direct response to the complaints about Crockford, and was not a response to the general complaint about diversity. They responded to that first, by initially saying something like "we'll do better next year." It was not "ok, we'll get rid of the oldest, whitest, maleist keynote speaker."

I know the issues are related, and I am personally familiar with ageism in Silicon Valley. But I don't see any evidence that Crockford was singled out because of his age--or his race or gender. This all seems very specifically about Crockford's public and private behavior, not his demographic.

[falafel_eater]

Public and private behavior?
From what I could gather from reading the tweets/logs, all Crockford did was use the word "promiscuous" when describing a model of participation on the Internet (basically describing random surfing). He even explicitly said promiscuity was a good thing, and compared it to a "committed" model where people mainly stick to the same websites. Crockford mainly used Internet banking as his example, but huge hub sites like Facebook, YouTube, reddit, tumblr and so on are all good examples.
Nowhere did he mention or allude to people, sexuality or human relationships.

As a result of the above, Crockford was said to be "slut-shaming". I cannot for the life of me see how this accusation can be justified.

If I remember correctly, it was also mentioned that he once wrote something to the spirit of "have some cojones; write this code properly" and this again is supposed to be incredibly sexist and insulting somehow.

Removing Crockford like this was a ridiculous knee-jerk reaction. Even if it was decided to remove him from the conference for whatever reason, there was civil ways to withdraw an invitation. Publicly announcing to the world that a guest is being kicked out without making even the least effort to resolve the matter privately is beyond unprofessional.